Black ButterFly

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Baltimore is used as an example of how Black Apartheid became the norm in the US—through federal state, and local government policies and societal reinforcement of racial tropes that have been around for so many years.

In perhaps the most engaging chapter, Black Neighborhood Destruction (Track 5) , he chronicles how past and current policies all but guarantee the forced uprooting of African Americans in Baltimore and the deleterious corollaries of severed community ties, broken families and lost wealth.I wrote my debut novel BLACK BUTTERFLIES (2022) to understand the siege that devastated Sarajevo from 1992-1996. Also highlighted is The Vijecnica, site of the University and (in) famous scene of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. This was a challenging read (and suffered from being a book I owned and therefor was not under a library due date to finish). Sarajevo is a multicultural city (where the city is full of the Muslim, Serb, Croat, and Yugoslav populations) but racial sentiments, and ethnic tensions have arisen, and conflict is brewing. For Zora, being deprived of her ability to make art is almost as bad; being an artist is part of her very identity.

I wasn’t much familiar with the details of these events except for a skeletal knowledge of the war having taken place. I appreciate how the book was broken into different focus areas but I felt at times was really repetitive and I wasn’t learning anything new. This book will make you think, it will make you grateful for the memories, it will make you cry, it will make you wonder about the life you have with the people around you, it will make you reflect on yourself.This is what Zora does and also really the way she expresses her love for the city and also her emotions towards it.